Delightful! We actually subscribed to the Huel food for a hot minute haha. Pithy and thoughtful and entertaining post - now let's have some of your favorite recipes!
Seems like all great cooks fiddle with the recipe and then there are those of us who are so absent minded as to overlook ingredients. So far that has not worked well for me. Glad you’re back Oleg
The saddest part is to go to a shop with 5 types of hummus but all of them already flavoured. Feh! Good to be back. And really hope to be reading more from you too! It's been a while. Best, Oleg.
It's been too long! I've been kind of stunned into silence with everything happening in the world and in my personal life but am planning a return in the not so distant future
You what this reminded me of? A topic I know is also dear to your heart: languages.
The "standardized" language is something we need for people in the same country to communicate with each other, but true beauty is always in the dialects, isn't it? I can understand the practical need for a standardized language, just like I can understand a need for a default recipe (so, say, you know what you're ordering when you go to a typical restaurant). But to call it inferior to dialects is just plain insulting.
That's a great analogy! I would even extend it beyond dialects in the classical sense. In my country, there's always been an obsessions with "speaking properly" --> no slang, no words from other languages if there's a local term for it (oftentimes made up by the zealots at the language institute), no irregularities. It's like always trying to replicate the same recipe, without allowing yourself to add your favourite spice to it and just see what happens.
Chocolate hummus is not hummus...but it is tasty. Chocolate!
Delightful! We actually subscribed to the Huel food for a hot minute haha. Pithy and thoughtful and entertaining post - now let's have some of your favorite recipes!
Seems like all great cooks fiddle with the recipe and then there are those of us who are so absent minded as to overlook ingredients. So far that has not worked well for me. Glad you’re back Oleg
Glad to be back Jeanne.
Ew, chocolate hummus!!! That is the line one should never cross... so good to see you back here old friend :)
The saddest part is to go to a shop with 5 types of hummus but all of them already flavoured. Feh! Good to be back. And really hope to be reading more from you too! It's been a while. Best, Oleg.
It's been too long! I've been kind of stunned into silence with everything happening in the world and in my personal life but am planning a return in the not so distant future
Don't call it a comeback!
You what this reminded me of? A topic I know is also dear to your heart: languages.
The "standardized" language is something we need for people in the same country to communicate with each other, but true beauty is always in the dialects, isn't it? I can understand the practical need for a standardized language, just like I can understand a need for a default recipe (so, say, you know what you're ordering when you go to a typical restaurant). But to call it inferior to dialects is just plain insulting.
That's a great analogy! I would even extend it beyond dialects in the classical sense. In my country, there's always been an obsessions with "speaking properly" --> no slang, no words from other languages if there's a local term for it (oftentimes made up by the zealots at the language institute), no irregularities. It's like always trying to replicate the same recipe, without allowing yourself to add your favourite spice to it and just see what happens.